The Red Bird is the latest work of speculative fiction by John Fraser of whom the distinguished poet and Booker Prize nominee John Fuller has recently written: 'I am convinced that he is the most original novelist of our time. His work has become an internal dialogue of intuitions and counter-intuitions that just happens to take the form of conversations between inscrutable characters. But really it is a rich texture of poetic perceptions, frequently reaching for the aphoristic, but rooted in sidelong debate and weird analogies.' In The Red Bird a group of associates, some close, some distant...